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" The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight... "
The virgin muse. Being a collection of poems from our most celebrated ... - Page 136
by Virgin muse - 1722
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes ...

John Milton - 1753 - 374 pages
...almoft life itfelf, if it be true That light is in the foul, She all in every part ; why was the fight To fuch a tender ball as- th' eye confin'd, So obvious and fo eafy to be quench'd ? 55 And not as feeling through all parts difrus'd, That the might look at will through every pore...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added, Samson ...

John Milton - English poetry - 1759 - 420 pages
...almoft life itfelf, if it be true That light is in the foul, She all in every part; why was the fight To fuch a tender ball as th' eye confin'd, So obvious and fo eafy to be quench'd? 95 And not as feeling through all parts diffus'd, That fhe might look at will through every pore? Then...
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The Works of the English Poets: Milton

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 320 pages
...almoft life itfelf, if it be true That light is in the foul, She all in every part ; why was the fight To fuch a tender ball as th' eye confin'd, So obvious and fo eafy to be quench'd ? 95 And not, as feeling, through all parts diffus'd, That fhe might look at will through every pore...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...almoft life itfelf; if it be true, That light is in the foul, She all in ev'ry part; why was the fight To fuch a tender ball as th' eye confin'd, So obvious and fo eafy to be quenched, And not, as feeling, thro' all parts diffus'd, That fhe may look at will thro' ev'ry pore...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 31-32

John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...cave. Since light so necessary is to life, 90 And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as th' eyeconfin'd, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd ? 95 And not as feeling...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 12

English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...almoft life itfelf, if it be true That light is in the foul, She all in every part; why was the fight To fuch a tender ball as th* eye confin'd, So obvious and fo eafy to be quench'd ? 95 And not, as feeling, through all parts diffus'd, That fhe might look at will through every pore...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...almofl life itfclf! if it be true, That light is in the foul, She all in cv'ry part ; why was the fight To fuch a tender ball as th' eye confin'd, So obvious and fo cafy to be quench 'd, And not, as feeling, thro1 all parts dift'us'd, That Ae may look at will thro'...
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Observations on Pope

Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pages
...fixth verfe of this paflage, Pope had his eye probably on Milton's Comus, ver. 97. Why was the fight To fuch a tender ball, as th' eye, confin'd, So obvious, and fo eafy to be quench 'd ? And not, z$ feeling, through all parts diffus'd, That fhe might look at will through every...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 3

1801 - 344 pages
...life itfelf ; if it be true, That light is in the foul, , She all in ev'ry part ; why was the fight To fuch a tender ball as th' eye confin'd, So obvious and fo eafy to be quench'd, And not, as feeling, thro' all parts diffus'd, That fhe may look at will thro' ev'ry pore. Such are the faults and fuch...
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The Universal magazine, Volume 10

592 pages
...And str< Migest drinks our chief support"1 advantage. Milton, however, was htalth; That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the sight To -such a tender ball as th' eye confin'd So obvious and so easy to be quench'd ? And not as feeling,...
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